The Sun. — London, England, 1808-07-19 00:00:00

NAVAL 'NEWS. PLymourx, JULY 1 7 .- 7 , Arrivedttri; morning the Cvzfouncier G t.l: - brig from off dadiz with Dis patches for the Admiralty, *bleb' *ere taken . off immediately by the Commanding Clt&if. • SW -- is sai ito h bro,i4ht ihtAigt-nce of importance, `but nu ptrti Alars have trAnipired. Sir GEORGE SMITII lah led here !roil] the Confounder, and set otf iinme• diat , -ly fur Lon.loti. Arrivel(l) , ! liindostan, of 54 guns, from off Lis t-au, with DiVatches, having six light__ Transports under con vcy. Clow in His Majesty's Ship; Growler from off lochefort ; C . /tampion and Cheerly from the gedni terianean ; and the Mediator With.a Fleet of Vic tuallers from utf Lisbon ; also two French Chasm 11lat 2 6es, laden with naval stores, captured , by Eli, 'Alajesty's Ship ihnethyst, who has destroyed eight others. Passed up Channel His Majesty's Ship Hydra ' with a Fleet of Transports and Merchantmen unde r convoy from the Mediterranean—part ofthe Trans !ports are arrived here. Ft:NV:MOUTH, JULY 8.-.-ATTived his Majesty's 'Mali Alert, with a convoy, froth the Downs; Pur -80; Tvoi.Eß; and the Peggeit Success, TkiOMBSONs (Transports) from the Mediterranean. Sli'‘ed fits Maje , ty's Ships Pluto, with specie, for Spain abd t lie Thrush, with the tollov.ing Vessels under cOnVi)y, Vit.. the Fortitude, Buow_l4, fin Ja- MalC3 Laza, -1 for Surinam 7 , GRIEvu, and Two Sisters, v► ith Troops, torßdrbauoes. His Majesty'i Ship eo'none has tpade the signal to unmoor, and is expetted to sail to=titorrow t nmonw ing, for the NlLldtterranean ; his Atije;ty's! Ship Tlk2l is appointed convoy for the Brazils, and is ' 4 Petled to sad to-murrdw also. DEAL, JULY is.—Arrived His Majesty's ship litrnzei, from Si. Croix, having under convoy the f°ll(lo iii , g Ves.els, viz.—The babeili; ttsr e , M`ii.ENDßlcic; Friends, DONALDil34tellti;" Xitty, Nestor ; and the 14vi ‘41"4 which are sailed for the River. 44tb3 cArrii,JULY 16. Arrived the Ranger, SR Ili.; ar)uRN, and the Four Sisters, WALKER; from Malta 414 0 tile Sally, UartiMlT, from LLverpool tor Malta, to j(ini convoy. • The Townshend Paoket sailed for Corunna this ((ve nom , but the wind corning to tlc South. \ v'ird SIIC bro 1, t oin the R )ads. BIUGIIERSH, It is said, is going out upon a special mission to Lisbon. His Lordship is expected tU einh,ric at Ramsgate. LADY BATIL-i-The. vast property of this Lady is by her decease, among various heirs. Sir lAME-; PULTNEv retaitTs a considerable part for his eWu li:e, amounting to 10,0001. per annum. ( )Vier part goes to Zonal lIKADY°IIIL Sir Jogs Juimslorie succeeds, it is under . ,tood, to a small 1 4 irt ; while very co ns id era ble estates dewhe to Sir 4tttetrann SUTTON. it is believed that the Earl of bARLINGTON has no claim t. 4 on ally part. He t;uc• needed, on the late Mr. WILLIAMS'S decease, to the Shropshire property. Lady BATH has left a Will. There have been-very few ei etas in plicate life of more melancholy kind than the death of, Lady E 'lleN• She was a veil: acconiplistied and truly auti.ble character: " As • a wife, a mother, and a friend, she traha be d ee ply d e pl ore d 6y a ll w h o lead !ale pleasure ul knowing her. H r pi-rsott eorre laporided with her disposition, and tier tace, witieh Vas very pleasing, was- rendered still more so by the must interesting, expression of good sense, gentle 114a, and unaffected ;simplicity. Ile loss of such a Itlitale parther u dl. require all the good s e n se: and r ‘ itude Sir FR DER EICK EDEN can stlizinion l 'ilstipport on so very 9tl, ere a Air. CHRISTIE, a Baker, ut Brons,aon-row, has P ° sse•sea tor 15 years a Pear-Ttee' that, ac; wally hears t wo blossoms': ,the second appears at -the . time the P r oauee of t. e first blossom exhibits the fruit itaif iipe ; and, towards the close of the summer, the tuit produced by the second . blossom is tit to gather. • U. Since , the above GentteinLi has 1 ossesse4 the 4 ree, be has ne%er knOwn it fail but - twice. . 6 A pras,,in, while walking beside a rivulet, near ul itYcastl e , iii the North of Ireland, on the 2011).01 4 aq J ulie , observed a hook ut glittering metal s pro jecting trotu a part of the bank, where the earth tad be, n recently washed away by the current ; on stooping to pull it ow, lw loom' it to be the extre o)ity of a rod, 38 inches ions, tree trout rust, and 1:£ a bright straw - co l our ; each nd was terminated Dya harrow book, intleete)l in contrary directions ; their hooks were ulasive, two incites in diameter, ettivatures not included in the length of the 11) : , which, if extend e d it) a straight line, would lo,‘""re 42 inches. About an inch and a half be div•dba4 Ilea of each hook, the body of tile rod was twisted 411 u three distinct irgre, which were closely unatceu,togrther in the manner of a toasting-fork.— ciLa."`ed nth its value, the peasant suffered it to be used as a bauble by his children, until his, at, terl ' i ° ll was raised by a person offering tor it more - than it was apparently worth. He then, with some difficulty, wrenched off one of the hooks, and-took i t to a Gentleman in Ballycastle, who sent for the r od, which, on proving it with aqua-fortis, be found to 'be entirely of pure gold, and to weigh (in air) 20 ounces and a half, avoirdupois. The workman though neat, is simple ; it is void of all those ornaments so generally used in gold or silver mate rials of the middle centuries ; it bears no religious symbol, and its original purpose remains for the skilful .Antiquarian to decide. Sr riGULAa CURIOSITY—The vertebra and part of the ribs of a larg e fish, enclosed in a t ragment o f blue rock, werlately found at Charleton, near So ' mama, irka quarry belonging to Mr. JouN CARY. r()Vrfil', . . The following Lihes i written in the wriiier of a former- period. We hope t.last the ingenious Author will be induced, by an auspicious change of affairs, to pay a tribute to the heroic Spaniards of the present year. THE CLIMATE OF ENGLArsii:i, BY MAJOR CHARLES JAMES. Hard frost to.day ; to-morrow tugs and rain! The next a whirlwind! and then frost again. Such revolutions in this isle we find; • Yet through them breaks the sunshine of the rnind. Unblemished truth and social bonds we boast ; Undaunted courage floats around our coast; While sense and b e au'y, hand in hand, appear, And * comfort brightens •tiro' the clouded year. Such England is, and may she so remain, • While chains and sunshine are the lot of Spain ; And southern gales o'er Gallia's bosom blow, To lull the wretchedness her children know. + A word exclusively used by the Fnglish. The French now say comfefft4bie ;, but rbty only know the terns ; we enjoy AMERICAN METHODISTS. The General Conference of the Methodist Church' met in this City on the 6th inst. Aisent 128,ment bers. After transacting a variety of business, they eleeied a Bishop to supply the vacancy-occasioned by the death of the late pious and much-respeCted Mr. WHATCO,AT, and yesterday morning Mr. APKENTREE was ordained, in the presence of one of the largest congregations that ever was collected in this City. The Meeting-house. in Light-street was tilled nearly two hours previous to the hour of meeting, and as large a number returned home, not being able" to enter, as those who were col lected. Last year the Methodist Society consisted of 144,5g0 Amembers. The returns of this year are 121,687 whites, and 30,308 coloured, making a to tal of 15 ,995 members, and the increase during that period 7405 members. The number of itinerant Ministers in the Methodist Connetlion, at present, amounts to 542, all aaively engaged in disseminat ing the knoAkdge,of the dove' truth. The General Convention of the Protestant p;pis copal Church is also now assembled in B.,ltirnore, and, it is probable that, between these two bodies, nearly 200 Ministers of the Gospel are at present engaged in devising the best means, according to their own views, to diffuse throughout the tinned States that sa%ing information which is the most •po - weiful stimulus to the perfiirmance of all that is excellent, and -vhich alone can render men truly vir tuous and eSkimable.—(l)la/t. pap. June 7, 1808.) usoyety riistovßßY.—l'lle tbllowing fa&, hoWe‘er kucliaroosi may be relied ou as having oc curred at ills house of a Gentleman of s..tne repute, not far fratti •Portinan-square. Toe Gentleman in spent i a few weeks at Southampton in Aug. last, and having occa s ion fOr a maid servant, he brought one to London from a neighbouring vilage. She had a brother of the name 01 Jonathan, whom s'ie invited during her short servitude, then in Mar garet-street, to pay her a visit in London: It hap pened that her master became enamoured of her et e she had been three months in his service, and he married her, and retno. 0.l to the vicinity of Portman square. On the 28th of June the Lady had an accouchement, and in a few days Jonathan unexpect edly made his visit to London, and atter enquiring for his sisterin Margaret-street, he was .:eletred to her new residence. Jonathan • knockqd at the door, and desired to speak to Margery Cole, his sis ter; but on being informed that no such person lived there, he insisted on the contrary, in rather a blustering manner, Which brotlght the master of the house to the door. Jonathan made known his business, and the Gentleman informed him that he hid married his sister, who had - lain-in but a few d'ays with her first child. Jonathan, with a know-, ing grit), replied, " No, 'leant the first of my tiepheWs, for though Margery is but twenty, she has I‘..tt:tv. 7 o little ones at our village, as the parish pretty well knows:" THE WEATHER.—Dr. POLE, of Bath, has given the following at-count of the state of the thermome ter, during three of the extremest hot days in the last week :—On the 12th instant, the temperature of the atmosphere rose to an height almost incre dible; at eight in the morning the mercury was at 75° ; and about the tn,dille of the day it stood at the extraordinary height of 91' ;' at nine in the evening it was at 77 0 . —ln this country we rarely have seen the mercury above the 80th degree; it has several t i mes been a t 669 in the course of the last‘six years, but never exceeded that height till the present period. On the 13th instant, the thermometer, at eight o'clock in the morning, was not higher than 7 1 o,.at mid-day nos above 83e ; and about ten in the even mg fell to 7Cia ; which, though unusually high, was considerably lower.than the prec'eding day.—On the I.4th the thermometer, at eight o'clock in the morn ing, was at 72° ;at mid-day 830 ; and at nine in the evening fieo.—The 15th instant, the thermo meter at eight o'clock was up to 760.—The baro meter has tor the last nine days stood at JO inches 3-20ths, without any variation worth notice. Cooee has been performing with considera ble success at Manchester, where, indeed, he was always a favourite. He proceeds to Newcastle, an other . place in which his talents were in high re pute, before he ventured upon the London Boards. Mrs. H. JOHNSTON is to join the Liverpool Com pany this season, and was to make her (Abut there last night. ! An unfortunate accident happened at an orchard at the back of the butt against which the targets are placed, at the Montpelier groutid at Walworth, on Saturday morning. It appears that trees had been not only robbed of the fruit to a great degree, but that they were torn down and destroyed, and therefore the Proprietor found himself under the necessity of putting down man-traps in the ground, of which he gave due notice by boards placed round the grouods.—Two fine young lads who were plundering the cherry trees, bring alarmed that they ,hotthi be caught, dropt down and fell plump on the table of the trip, which closing, cut bulb their legs so dreadfully that amputation ,was deemed necessary. 4141 gEICA° NEW Vont.,_ JUNII 4.—Since tae artival of the United States Sloop of War Wasp at Paisamaquod dy, a great number of Boats hatie tieti seized smu 4 sling flour. The Veiiiels there; which have not discharged their cargoes, wilt take them away again. Flour, &c. which is landed, is not allotted to be taken away unless bonds are given, and the amount thereof in specie deposited %at the Custom house. All the stores are stri&ly guarded, and no sale for flour at any price. The Age& for Govern ment, who was sent there to execute the laws, has been taken into custody by the Commander of the Wasp, as being concerned in smuggling. It is now reduced to a melancholy faa (says a Rut land, Vermont, Paper of May 28), that a set of un principled speculators, on and about Lake Champ lain, are determined to oppose and evade the Em bargo law at all events. The interposition of a small detachment of the Militia, which is now about to be made, we believe, will disperse these trans gressors of our laws, and induce them to- return to their respective homes. . 6.--From the Virginia Herald, published at. Iredericksburgh, we learn, says The Walsingham Federalist, that the best flour may be purchased there at the ruinous and almost unprecedented price of threedollars per barrel. This intelligence we conceive to be both import ant and interesting ;--important, because it proves to denniustiatiOn the evil of this fatal Embargo. , JUNE United States Sloop of War the Wasp arrived at Boston on Friday last from Passam aquoddy. KNOXVILLE, Mat 14.--,We understand that two companies of Militia; from, West Tennessee, have been ordered out, and, are now on duty on our frontiers, in order to protect the Citizens from the depredations of the Indians; who are becoMing very troublesome. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM MONTREAL, MAY f,lB, 1808 The Boats of the ilachill-Mackinac Company, under the sanction of the Treaty of 1794, and the special provisions of an Att of the last Congress, were laden with goods in the Indian trade, and were pro ceeding on the usual route, when, as they were turn ing the point of Like Ontario, the Collector at Nia gara, aided by the troops of the Garrison, fired upon them, brought them to, and seized their goods, and turned them adrift; destitute of provisions. This outrage is equally in violation of the Treaty of 1794; and of the Laws of the United States, and in dire& contradiaion to the assurances lately given by the. American Gov, rnment, of their determination to re sped the permanent Articles of that Treaty."—( New York General .riclvertiser.) The State of New York has passed a law, offer ing a reward of 50 dollars to anyone who shall `bring a full-blooded Merino Ram into any State of that .county, where no such Ram was before. — For the encouragement of manufactures it has also passed a law for granting premiums of 150, 75, and 50 dollars, for the first, second, and third best specimens of woollen cloth, of certain dimen sions. The great encouragement.(says The Quebec Mer cury) held out by the present House of Assembly for the growth and culture of hemp, will, no doubt, have a powerful influence, and produce a coniidera ble emulation among the industri-us farmers of the country ; the price offered being one hundred ,pounds, York currency, per ton, to be paid in hard cash. FROM A NSW YORK. PAPER, DATED THE 6TH 31710 E. FATAL DUEL !—A Gentleman in this town (New York) has politely favoured the Editor of this Pa per with the following extraa of a letter from his friend•in Fincastle, dated the toth May, 1808: " Colonel Andrew Lewis this night received a special . message from Christ ianburgh, Montgomery County, commuilicating the death of his son, Mr. Thomas Lewis, fallen in a duel this morning ; and that his opponent, Mr. John'M'Fienry, was just ex piring at the departure of the said messenger. Thus it is told—Lewis challenged M`fienry to fight with pistols: the latter declined, but said he would fight with rifles at the distance of 15 steps—it was agreed. to by Lewis—they met, find loth Lewis was shot through the heart, the other a little below." We have seen another letter from Fincastle of the same date, which states the cause of the dispute be tween Lewis and Milenry ; it was concerning the Montgomery eleaion. ,Mr. IVl'Henry had been eleaed this spring as De legate to the Assembly of this Commonwealth from Montgomery; in which capacity he had acted for several Sessions past. Mr. Lewis was a promising young man, and had just commenced the pradice of the law; and from the able manner in which he ac quitted himself in .the, causes upon which he had been called to speak, promised great credit to the profession. Mr. M*l-lettyy died the day following their rencoutre. Thus nave two young men, like many others, in the pursuit of false honour, frus trated the views of their parents, defeated the pur pose for which they were made, and madly rushed into an unknown world I—(Staunton Censor.) . At the trial of an a6tiou a few days ago, in the Court of King's Bench, Dublin, brought to recover compensation for a quantity of Port wine which had beeq damaged by bad corks, one of the witnesses, a Reverend Gentleman, was complimented by the Counel.on the ruddiness of his complexion and the comtortableness of his appearance, mentioned hav ing tried an experiment which may prove interest ing to wine-bibbers in general. In consequence of the bad tuck, mentioned by a preceding witness, and which indeed rendered the wine nearly urr drinkable, he caused it to be dec.'inted off in fresh 'bottles, with fresh corks, and he found, after two months, That the taste and flavour of his wine was considerably ,impioved. Modelling has lately been much studied . in the higher circles, as a branch of fashionable education. The Princess of WALES has made great progress In that art. Her Royal Highness has made bUsts of the Duke of BRUNSWICK and herself, and h.is made several copies of them, and presented them to her particular friends. WE I-211011114 riP - eate:l aeCoart• s df fitii.vietnidus - :ttruegqic Patriots - , fecerV-e'd 114 - s.'eosarse of ti e . pat, have excited the m Sensation uf amkitie, all ranks here; marry of our fAlrionab'e visitaiits fro e &Sell ehfertvoiou*MtS A c g1 . 0t1011S : hi its t he feeli and ititeresi of the British N4t.i , rn Cuoi'EA and Mr. Mr. tr:lti, 00 Tuesday aud Wvdireslay liSt; took the lead in issuing cards of in, to large parties or dies'and GetttleinA, and s:-veral M :lit arythfie.ertt The Band of the 2,1 Somerset Regiment ~f Militia was in attendance opposite their riltderice 0:1 Esplanmi , and for several hours performed ninny nety and pular airs, . There being no King's Ships in 'the Roads, t' , e!! Yost (Mee Packets displayed th?ir Bemers r -Woof) bore the Commodore's Flag off the occJsi:wd, and also gave au elegant cold colltition on board thes Chestetfietd, to a large party of t.adies aua - men, who spent the whole of the aft erno(m ill ,adiu round the Bay, accompanied by a small Fleet of Plea sure Boats; but to commemorate the triumph o! t 1 e brave Patriots with a degree of splendour equal 1 , importance, Colonel 0)0ft-a and the Officers u the 2d Somerset Regiment of Militia, on Thursli) gave a most magnificent Military Fate to Gene;. LINSINGEN and Staff; Colonel ALT N, and Werra of the Ist and 2d Regiments of Hanoverian Ligh; - Horse, and upwards of 150 fashltAiables, on the Nothe, near Weymouth Battery, 'situated on stir eminence that commands a beautiful prosy:--& of the.• Town, Bay, and Harbour, and on which tantral marquees were pitched for the purpose. It is hardly possible to do justice to the proffi;,.• sr and liberality with which this grand entettainmtnr'- was conducted : every delicacy that could be pro cured was placed before this assembly of fashion and beauty: Cheerfulness was depicted on every counte name, and agayer scene has been Seldom witnessed -.• • At eight o'clock-the seVeral marcinees were thrown open, and dancing commenced, which continued with great spirit till ten, when the Lactie, retired, highly gratified with the polite attention pa.o The Gentlemen retired to t!,e Nless R )0.11, where conviviality reigned to a very late hour, The evening_ concluded with a displ,iy of Fire works on the Eplanade, and the whole (431,4, -Jut the cause that produced it, lia.t a most interesting c:11.• - zt, and will ever refiea the highest hu.lour t. Regiment. SURREY ADJOUIZATED SESSIONS. HORSEMONGER.IANFi JULY O, BEFORE. Slit JEAN? ONSIOW AND A FULL SINC . I - 1 CIIP MACISTRATIS. The Grand Jury were called over and sw - .rti after which the Learned Chairman made an excel lent charge, the subje6t of which way, that he trji• citated them on the state of the Calendar, and the tranquillity of the County, and the little tron!de they %%erehkely to have. They then proceeded tee business. The Traverse Jury were then sworn Joseph Neale and William Oliver, Whartingers, pleaded guilty to an Indiament preferre , l agaitrtt them, for a nuisance and incroachtnent .. on the Bauits of the navigable River Thames. They were fined one shilling each, and disch.trged, on entering into re cognizances of tool. etch ta abate the nuisance and remove the incroachtnent. John Acton, a Publican, in Pittagtreet, Kent Road, was indiacd for a grois'and iriulent assaldt on 110111a9 Heath, a Serjnot in the East Lutrion Mi litia, on the 4th day of D.:umber last, at Mill-street, Dock-head. After the Chairman had sum:ned up to the Jury, they fouud him Guilty. UNIONAHALL.--Yesterday Edward Brown was brought up and underwent an examhiation, charged with stealing four gold rings, with sundry other ar ticles, the property of Mr, Warne, and, in conse quence thereat, was committed for a further beiring. Henry Hadson, at the Claken's Head, Wit. Heelis, at the Black Lion, and Richard Williams, at the Ship", were severally convicted in the penalty of i os. for having, on Sunday last, permitted tipling in their houses during Divine Serb ice. Great effe&s, according to the common-place re mark, have. arisen froht little causes, and it i, not impossible that the refusal of a situation in ti'e Bri tish Army to BIONAPARTE, may have been the . nee casion that deep-rooted malignity against ti , is country which he has. manifested at all, tunes,. and particularly when he has by any viaory added to his power. BATH, JULY 17.,..011 Friday evening, after a day of the most oppressive and excessive heat, the.nei,h -bourhocxl of this city was visited with a more tre mendous storm of thunder, lightning, a' hail than was ever remembered to hate ben e4periLar_ed. The rolling of the distant thunder, and track suc cession of the flashes o; vivid lightning, complutety illumining the hemisphere for a cOnsiderable long' h of time, formed to the inhabitants of this city a truly grand and awful spectacle. The storm ex tended beyond Bristol, in which city hailstones were picked up of nearly an inch in circumference. At Newton, .Corston, and Kelston, most of the win dows that lay in the direction of the storm, harts been broken, as well as the glasS of the hot -houses', &c., in the•gardens of Gore Langton, Esq. at Newton, and of Sir Caesar Hawkins, at Kelston; considerable • damage has, been done to the young plantations, as • the hail descended in several places in large tilkes of two . inches in thickness. A boy, belonging to Mr. Harding, of Keynham, was struck down by tt:e lightning, and his recovery V. as for some time doubt fill. We have heard of several horses having been killed, and other cattle destroyed, but we trust the accounts are exaggerated. A heavy storm came on, to the oest of the City Of Saliibury, on Kid.iy evening, and erenied through great, part , of the Counties of Somerset, :DrOrset, and ilts. At Winc:mton, about half pa't six o'clock, during a rapid su.ce , Sion of fiishes of lightning and peali of thunder, the tall of hail v, as tremendous, the hail-stones being larger than !my before seen by the oldest persons in the neighbour hood. A boy was beaten down by the hail, and se veral stones were picked up that were Atwell loot than pullets' eggs. I V